Appeals court asked to rule on pharmacy slaying conviction

Tulsa World-Dec 30, 2017

Former pharmacist Jerome Jay Ersland is taking his last-ditch challenge of his murder conviction to the federal appeals court in Denver. Ersland, 66, is serving a life sentence for fatally shooting an unarmed, already wounded teenage robber in 2009 inside an Oklahoma City pharmacy. He is not eligible for parole until 2049.

Pharmacists slow to dispense lifesaving overdose drug

WBIR-TV-Dec 30, 2017

Gale Dunham, a pharmacist in Calistoga, Calif., knows the devastation the opioid epidemic has wrought, and she is glad the anti-overdose drug naloxone is becoming more accessible. But Dunham said that so far, she has not taken advantage of a California law that allows pharmacists to dispense the medication to ...